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25 May
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Hello. I really need some piece of advice on this one. I often get confused when I come across spontaneous real-life situations that never gets described in movies or books. Like in my country, we hang the clothes outside to dry them. However, in native English speaking countries, they have inbuilt dryers in their Washing machines. So they don't have to say things like "I'm hanging the wet clothes outside to dry. " Or "I'm taking down the dry clothes. " So it's really hard to find these kind of sentences that never gets covered due to differences in life, countries and situations. I often notice that it's way more hard to say something, when you've never heard it being said/described before and sometimes I even lack the vocabulary to express the situation. And even if you figure out a way of expressing it, you're always second guessing yourself, whether it's correct or not. I come across numerous of situations like this that makes my english speaking journey challenging and i urge you to help me with this conundrum.
Hello. I really need some piece of advice on this one. I often get confused when I come across spontaneous real-life situations that never gets described in movies or books. Like in my country, we hang the clothes outside to dry them. However, in native English speaking countries, they have inbuilt dryers in their Washing machines. So they don't have to say things like "I'm hanging the wet clothes outside to dry. " Or "I'm taking down the dry clothes. " So it's really hard to find these kind of sentences that never gets covered due to differences in life, countries and situations. I often notice that it's way more hard to say something, when you've never heard it being said/described before and sometimes I even lack the vocabulary to express the situation. And even if you figure out a way of expressing it, you're always second guessing yourself, whether it's correct or not. I come across numerous of situations like this that makes my english speaking journey challenging and i urge you to help me with this conundrum.
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25 May
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- Country or region United States
@Juneheavens I have the same issue everytime I speak Korean. I often come across certain situations I have never been taught about that I can't speak in Korean for other to understand or I hear completely new words that sound super complex and I'm too scared to say cause I'm afraid it would be wrong or even if I figured out how to say something I would just say it in English cause I don't wanna take the chance of me being wrong. I would recommend fighting the urge of that fear cause it can hold back from actually learning cause when we make mistakes we learn. And (some Americans do hang their clothes but it's not too common) and a lot of us Americans speak only one language so it's quite impressive whenever someone speaks more than one. Keep on speaking to the best of your capability and feel free to ask any person how to say something in English that way you learn some more it can actually help you learn the language at a really fast pace.
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- Country or region United States
@Juneheavens I have the same issue everytime I speak Korean. I often come across certain situations I have never been taught about that I can't speak in Korean for other to understand or I hear completely new words that sound super complex and I'm too scared to say cause I'm afraid it would be wrong or even if I figured out how to say something I would just say it in English cause I don't wanna take the chance of me being wrong. I would recommend fighting the urge of that fear cause it can hold back from actually learning cause when we make mistakes we learn. And (some Americans do hang their clothes but it's not too common) and a lot of us Americans speak only one language so it's quite impressive whenever someone speaks more than one. Keep on speaking to the best of your capability and feel free to ask any person how to say something in English that way you learn some more it can actually help you learn the language at a really fast pace.
- Country or region India
@soolily9 thanks for the advice, I'm beyond grateful and it's nice to see that I'm not the only one struggling with this... I won't lose heart and keep wading my way through to get a bit better everyday and by learning everything piece by piece... I really appreciate your help and my sincere thankss... 🙏🙏😊
- Country or region United States
@Juneheavens anytime! I'm also glad I'm not the only one 😅 if you have any extra questions just come to HiNative :)
- Country or region India
@soolily9 hello there. I just figured out a way of learning about daily life situational english that we come across only when we're living through it. I found authors who are bilingual meaning whose families are actually from my target language but he was born and brought up in my native country. This way they have a good command over both languages (our target language as well as our native language). So many of the stories/anecdotes that are described in the book are the ones that we want to learn in our target language. This thought crossed my mind only a couple of minutes ago and I came straight to hinative and hunted down this question to share it. I hope this works for you too!!! Happy learning... 🙂
- Country or region United States
@Juneheavens I hope this helps me too!! I'm so happy you shared this with me!! Thank you!! And by the way (bilingual actually means someone who knows two or more languages. Which means they can be from any country and family to be bilingual)
- Country or region India
@soolily9 I'll keep that in mind... Thanks again... I really appreciate it... 🙏🙏😊

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